The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-12-01

CHRONICLE III every section OF the Stat,
are requested to aid us III making this de
PARTNER an accurate record, in brief. 0
the news from Murphy to Manteo. SenC
Us postal card whenever ANYTHING O.
public interest transpires in your neigh
| borhood or section OF country. You vii
ald us and give prominence to your sec
ton. Send on the postal cards. - EDITOR.
49,. The Mcdowell Bugle says that Hid
denlte has been found in Mcdowell county
49,. The sweet potato crop throughout
| the State was badly damaged by the rains
| III Octobtr.
49,. The ladies of St. Paul Goldsboro
Methodist church, presented Rev. DR..
! Brooks with handsome suit of clothes.
! 1.-THE grand jury at Beaufort Court
has found a true bill against W. A. Potts
and Mrs Liucke for the murder of Paul
Lincke last June.
North Carolina eX Confederate sol
diers and their widows receive every year
$50, 900 in the way OF pensions from the
National Treasury.
80. Mr.. Z. n Robinson, of the e. S
Fish commission, Is stocking the streams
IN Haywood, jackson, Swain and other
mountain counties with trout.
IA case was tried at the last term Of
CabarruS Court in which the costs amount
ed to $500. The amount involved was
500 The lawyers got the money and the
iltlgants got-ieft.
.... Gov. Scales has pard0ncd John
Britt, OF Wayne county, an insane CON
Wet, who was convicted of shooting at
passenger train on the K. u @. road. He
was placed IN the asylum.
The would 'do" more. After a
fashionable dining at Fayetteville on
Thanksgiving Day, a Cake Wax was
proposed. one of the most beautiful
bellies III the State won the cake.
80. The best paper for North Carolina
religious news that come, 10 the CHRONI
Gle Office is the Monroe Enquirer and Ex-
press. 1t every week gives in succincr
form the news III religious circles in the
State.
,,..T The Auditor estimates that the in
creased valuation of property this year
Will aggregate So, 000, coo This estimate
is based on the return from all the coun-
ties, except fifteen, which show an increase
of So, ,000 900.
" The annual Conference of the Meth
Odist Episco pal church is in session at
Fayetteville, this week The editor of the
nish report Of the proceedings next week.
Judge Key is presiding.
The Swannanoa tunnel on the ".
n. G. K. L. is now open and trains run
through it regularly. Col. Andrews told
a CHRONICLE man that the grade of the
road was lowered and made better by the
authorities during the stop up.
I'VE are hosrly expecting to hear
that our Sanford friends have died from
over eating. TIE bills of fare &c, OF
Thanksgiving Day at the Two hotels occu-
ped two whole columns IN the Express.
If Moore county believes III one thing more
than another it is in eating.
- \ Winston friend writes: The Twin
City Reform C. K Club has established a
reading room and Is making all sorts of
efforts TO throw Influences of the right
sort around those who bat for the assist
ance of Others usually throw themselves
away for liquor.
The old Board Of Directors of the
". d w. +. Il. was re elected at a meet
ing of the stockholders held last week.
All the officers We're also reelected. The
Board of Directors were authorized to
continue the Scotland Neck branch road
to point at. or near, Greenyllle.
. Mr.. NJ D. Mcknight, of Coddle
Greek township, has made about 5000
gallons of sorghum syrup this Fall, which,
at so cents per gallon, will cause about
81, 500 to stay in the community which
otherwise would have gone to Louisiana
or somewhere else it had no business go
ing LStatesville Landmark.
We have heretofore failed to note
the consolidation of the two Hickory
papers under the name of the Press ana
C.rolipiap !, Mr. l. MnrriI obi
tor. 1t is live paper, edited by "a live
man, in a live town. The people OF the
banner county ought to give it cordial
support. 1t deserves it,
..A A young man Of pleasing appear
ance boarded in the family of a widow
lady and made love TO her daughter,
good looking girl He lost his job, aud
when ont OF money she made him Il pres
ent of a suit Of cloths. He thanked her
and went out and married somebody else,
daughter Durham Recorder.
=. Henderson jubilated over the throw
ing of the first dirt on the Durham and
Henderson railroad. b. y. Cooper made
speech. W. Z. Gary threw the first
shovel fall of dirt. Rev. I. J. Horner
rolled away the first wheel barrow of dirt,
followed by d. E. Young and p W.
Wyche. The Gold Leaf is happy.
-. The total number of pensioners this
year, as We learn from the Auditor, Is }.
525. The appropriation for them l. $50,
600, which will give each pensioner 30
Last year there We're 2,127 pensioners,
each of whom received S1f 10. The CRHON-
ICLE wishes that it could be possible to
give these deserving pensioners ten dollars
d month.
.. Commissioner Patrick visited New
Berne this week and ha0 a conference
with some Of the citizens IN regard TO the
Game, Fish and Oyster FAIR. He told the
citizens that they ought 10 raise $500. He
| felt sure that he could carry 900 or 3,
900 people to the FAIR. The Journal
urges all the citizens to lend 4 helping
| hand.
-. The boys at the University are hav-
| ing stormy time in the Phi society. 30
| of them withdrew because new student
was black balled. Only those who have
known something of society politics can
| understand the Significance of this move
to the boys. They think that the fate
of the Nation hangs upon the settlement
| of their dispute. Give EN- time, and
they'll learn better
. In Granville county, according tc
the Dispatch a man named Ray went tc
| a sale in the county swearing he would
raise hell" He had been talking in 9
| light way of the sister of Mr.. Bridgers
Bridgers told his sister not to speak tC
Ray He saw them talking together, and
went up and reproved his sister. Ray got